James M. Barrie
James M. Barrie
Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OMwas a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland but moved to London, where he wrote a number of successful novels and plays. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens, then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a "fairy play"...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth9 May 1860
James M. Barrie quotes about
kinder
Always be kinder than necessary.
practice want hats
In time they could not even fly after their hats. Want of practice, they called it; but what it really meant was that they no longer believed.
simple reason said
She's awfully fond of Wendy,' he said to himself. He was angry with her now for not seeing why she could not have Wendy. The reason was so simple: 'I'm fond of her too. We can't both have her, lady.
cleverness
Oh, the cleverness of me!
sinister polite
He was never more sinister than when he was most polite...
colour astonishing
astonishing splashes of colour
neverland i-am-the-best
I am the best there ever was!
fairy feels
David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'.
mother-daughter mother-and-daughter my-daughter
Fame is rot; daughters are the thing.
equality may upstairs
His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.
success religion
One's religion is whatever he is most interested in.
jealousy wedding wish
That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
pirate weapons lovable
One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he wiped instead of his weapon.
knowledge knowing-everything age
I am not young enough to know everything.